>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and with matt o'donnell, tamala >> ♪ >> good morning. it's 5:00 a.m. on this wednesday, november 26th. here's what's happening. >> accuweather is tracking a storm system that will bring us a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow. >> from the roads to the rails, we're tracking the potential problems for commuters this morning. >> let's get right on in it with david and karen. good morning. >> all right, the rain has arrived in the region but right now it's very light. a lot of what you industry philadelphia north is basically drizzle or very light rain. farther south we go toward wilmington back down i-95 toward baltimore and in extreme southern delaware and south jersey we're getting a little darker shade of green so the rain is on the way but it's fairly light and nuisance stuff right now. as you look out on the wide view there's a changeover to snow but you have to go out into central pennsylvania and even north central pennsylvania to see that. we're still waiting for the cold air to get in later in

the morning and then in through the afternoon we'll see that changeover from about philadelphia north and west. and here is the winter storm warning that has been posted as of yesterday. it's still in effect today up until 10 o'clock tonight and these counties highlighted in pink are where we think the biggest impact is going to be with at least slushy roads and maybe some snow covered roads later on. higher snowfall amounts. in the advisory area it's mainly lighter accumulations on grassy surfaces but you still have potential issues with some slick spots and again this all goes until 10 o'clock tonight. rain changing over to sweat snow. impact areas well the hardest hit is going to be the northern and western suburbs you see downingtown pottstown reading allentown places like that, that's where the heavy wet snow is going to accumulate. could pile up on branches and power lines and bring those down so maybe some power outage in the north and west. in the i-95 corridor and other areas closer to the delaware river we begin as rainily we turn to wet snow. a a slushy accumulation mainly onagra surfaces. take it slow out there on the roads. and then down the shore we

have gusts up to 30 miles per hour, a soaking rain, maybe a flake or two but the big issue here is going to be that heavy wind and heavy rain. 48 degrees right now philadelphia. we have started to see those temperatures dip in allentown. we're still in the upper 30's. again it's these areas that probably see the changeover first and we're in the mid 40's down through much of south jersey. and as we head out the door this morning to catch that school bus it does look like it's going to be raining in most areas, maybe light rain. 44 by 6 o'clock down to 42 by 8:00 a.m. then we're in the 30's this afternoon and you see that now on the smartphone from noon, 3 o'clock and down to 6 o'clock. that's philadelphia karen in the northern and western suburbs it will be a little bit cooler and that's where it's going to be easier to make that snow. i'll have future tracker showing you the arrival and departure of this coming up. >> all right dave here in plymouth meeting late this morning into the early afternoon we might have issues with visibility or slushiness. pro be bless on the blue route

approaching the mid-county tolls. no travel related issues. just because the roads are dry doesn't mean we don't have accidents. we have an accident involving a tractor-trailer and they're trying to clean it up on the pennsylvania turnpike near fort washington. blocking the center lane, right lane and the shoulder at this point so some restrictions here on the turnpike eastbound. meanwhile this accident in ambler on fairview avenue and rosemont avenue still out there. let's go outside live and show you what it looks like once again. here we are on the vine street expressway approaching the schuylkill, no problems on the vine. we've got light volume, just a little damp so looking good. in maple shade burlington county construction blocking two lanes on 73, tam. >> thank you karen. let's go live to "action news" reporter katherine scott. she's at philadelphia international airport. you can imagine families bustling in there with the kids just hoping the make their fly. how are things looking? >> reporter: well, so far so good. of course it's early yet. this is such a busy day anyway and when you add the storm could just be a headache for a lot of people but again so far people are arriving to the

airport and i just looked at the u.s. airways boards and a lot of the flights seem to be on time so far and you can see activity is starting to pick up here inside terminal c as people are checking in. outside the terminal, we are starting to see some light rain. before this date even began, you can even see problems at airports on the east coast. before midnight last night, airlines had already canceled more than 200 flights for today. nearly half of those cancellations were at newark and la guardia and because this is already such a crazy day for flying and traveling in general, flights were already packed so there's just less wiggle room to accommodate the passengers whose flights get canceled. passengers we've been speaking to are hoping they can board their plain and take off before the weather hits too bad because these holiday plans are ones they have been looking forward to. >> i am traveling to fayetteville north carolina to see my grandchild which just arrived in center so it's his first thanksgiving and just hoping to get there without

any delays. >> reporter: and back here live in terminal c just after 5:00 a.m. you can see we're starting to see the lines start to form here. it's going to get a lot busier as the day goes on. a lot of airlines are waiving change fees for passengers flying today through airports that are in the path of the storm. phl is one of them. baltimore, washington and newark airports are some others but while things haven't gotten bad here yet that doesn't mean there won't be any issues later on or that there aren't already issues in places you're traveling to so the best thing to do is check your flight status before you led out to the airport. we're live at phl, katherine scott channel6 "action news." >> thanks katherine. fasten your seat belts here. taking a ride on mobile6. look at that roadway. no one -- this is i-95. wish it was like this every day. we're approaching concorde pike, 202, new castle county which is expected to get a little bit of snow, a lot of rain. most of delaware just seeing rain but there you go another

car there. mobile6 safely traveling for us on this wednesday morning. the action cam was at 30th street station yesterday where travelers were getting an early start. amtrak is bracing for big crowds ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. >> 72 extrains. 39 will be as sell has. we're adding extra capacity and extra seats, additional coaches, longer trains. really the name of the game is to move as many people as we can. >> karen will keep us posted on amtrak and you can head to 6abc.com/weather for the latest from accuweather. use storm tracker 6 live radar and the seven day and hourly forecasts. >> ♪ >> and in another news now unrest over the grand jury decision not to indict officer darren wilson for the shooting death of michael brown continues to boil over in ferguson and other cities across the country. in ferguson, hundreds of additional national guard troops helped preventer a second night of chaos. demonstrators did set a police patrol car on fire and broke

some windows at city hall. in oakland a group of protesters briefly shut down two freeways and vandalized police cars and some businesses in the downtown area. and in los angeles some protesters broke off from the 300 fellow demonstrators and blocked the 101 freeway at grant avenue and in in case police made several arrests. >> the man at the center of this unrest officer darren wilson spoke exclusive to good morning america's george stephanopolous about why he shot and killed michael brown. wilson said the confrontation started when he pulled his patrol car up to brown and told the teen to come over to him. then as wilson was trying the get out of his patrol car, he said brown yelled at him and slammed the patrol car door shut on wilson. shortly after that wilson explained to george brown started hitting him. >> reporter: he threw the first punch. >> yes he threw the first one and hit me in the left side of my face. >> reporter: some of the witnesses have said that they saw you trying to pull him into the car.

>> that would be against every training every taught to any law enforcement officer. i don't know what or how many hit me. >> wilson says brown hit him repeatedly and says he shot the 18-year-old because he thought brown might kill him. hear more of this exclusive interview on "good morning america" at 7:00 a.m. religious minister led prayers and processions in our area in solidarity with the people of ferguson. dozens of people marched through cherry hill last night starting at unitarian universal lift chump -- church on clings highway. >> everybody wondering how much snow rain will we get today. >> not going to be an enormous amount in philadelphia. the northern and western suburbs little bit more. storm tracker 6 live double scan right now shows you there is rain falling across the region right now and as we take a little bit more of a two dimensional view you can see that it's mostly highlighted in very light shades of green from philadelphia north so a lot of cases this is just drizzle or

a really fine light rain. there's slightly steadier stuff coming up pike from baltimore and eventually we'll start to see this fill in as steadier rain. right now it's a small nuisance. stepping outside we have cloudy skies overhead. there's the shore and little bit of rain beginning to move into the region. temperature well above freezing so it is all rain during the morning rush hour. 48 degrees currently in philadelphia. little cooler up in the lehigh valley, upper 30's there. winds north-northeast at 9 miles per hour and winds pick up as the day goes on and the center of that coastal low pressure system gets closer to us. from 6:30 until 8 o'clock shows it's mainly rain. poconos starting to changeover. it's really about 9 o'clock or so that we have a better chance of seeing the big changeover to snow in the northern and western areas and it's these areas from northern montgomery chester and bucks counties on north where we have the winter storm warning because we're going get more snow up there. it's only an advisory in and around the i-95 corridor where

we won't get as much. by 2 o'clock it looks like we're closer to philadelphia and again this is a model run estimating the location of all of this. we may actual have some wet snow in philadelphia early this afternoon and by 6 o'clock it's again mainly centered to the north with a little bit of snow at the tail end coming through areas south of philadelphia. by probably nine, 10 o'clock most of us are done with the majority of this snow. a couple of models to show you. the european still is the more aggressive model showing allentown right on the edge of a six to 12-inch band. i don't know that anybody is going to go as high as six but i could see 6-inches potentially around the lehigh valley. three to six down in the northern suburbs and less and less as you get down into the other side of the delaware river on the jersey side of things. some models still are less aggressive. the gfs wants to push all of the snow off to the north and west in which case we wouldn't get that much in philadelphia. either way though all we're looking at is grassy surface precipitation in the i-95 corridor and mainly wet roads. we're going to still go for that 1 to 3-inch idea in the

i-95 corridor and again in all of these communities mainly wet roads, grassy surface accumulation but as you step up into the northern portions of bucks, montgomery, chester and north, 3 to 6 inches and the potential for messy road conditions up there. so, on the roads today, mainly wet along i-95, turning slushy in the northern and western suburbs. big wet snowflakes and reduced visibilities would be issues on the roads. it all gets out of here late tonight as you just saw on future tracker 6, though and in time for thanksgiving, yeah we're cold but dry. 38 by noon. that's about what you can expect during the parade and then 40 by 4 o'clock which is your high tomorrow. your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast we're going for temperatures in the 30's this afternoon. our high technically 50 but that's already in the rear-view mirror and that precipitation rain to wet snow continuing until about eight to 10 clock tonight and then it's done and we're brisk and chilly on thursday with a high of 40. 39, cold for shoppers on friday, brisk and colds there and then saturday 42 and back up to the 50's milder and more comfortable on sunday.

and it looks like we stay in the 50's then monday and tuesday. next chance of precip is sunday night into monday but that is rain, folks, and not snow, okay. >> okay. >> good. >> yeah. >> about right. [laughter] >> it's now 5:12. philadelphia police release surveillance pictures trying to track down a group of thieves who attacked a man in an elevator. karen. >> we're looking live here in chadds ford, a new accident blocking the right lane right on baltimore pike at 202. we're going to check the turnpike and talk about that accident involving a tractor-trailer p when "action news" comes right back. >> ♪

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>> ♪ >> breaking right now, a water main break flooded a half dozen homes in northeast philadelphia overnight. this is some brands new video philadelphia overnight.

it happened on the 1900 block of wittler street around 3:00 a.m. residents are cleaning up flooded basements right now. homes were evacuated. the fire department remains there on the scene. nothing like a flooded basement. >> bad time for that. never a good time really. let's go to karen rogers for traffic. >> that's for sure. let's check some of the suburbs. we have a problem out here. let's go live and this is chadds ford looking in delaware county. we can see this accident here police on the scene on baltimore pike southbound at 202. out here blocking the right lane. you can see the roads in this area just a bit damp so it's a little bit wet in this area and that's it but yet an accident already happening out there with police on the scene even with light volume so be careful as you're headed out. let's talk about some other issues out there on the commuter traffic report. scanning along the pennsylvania turnpike found someone talking about this accident involving a tractor-trailer and you know it happened before midnight but the trouble is they're still trying to clear it out so they're blocking a few lanes as they do that. it's eastbound near fort washington so watch for crews

still on the scene and some restrictions eastbound on the pennsylvania turnpike. we have this accident in ambler as well. fairview avenue and rosemont avenue. let's go back outside live. we want to take another camera check. this is in chalfont in bucks county and we can see under the headlight some of the drizzle that's coming down pretty steadily at this point but the roads just a bit damp. it's just really beginning out here in upper state road at county line road. very light traffic. not seeing anybody out here at this point. one or two cars starting to move through. let's check its temperatures as david mentioned we have rain and it is just rain overspreading the region. it's very light in some cases coming down just as drizzle. temperatures well above freezing throughout the area. 48 degrees in philadelphia so no slick spots or anything you have to worry about with that. 44 in millville. 39 degrees, though, in allentown, matt and tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. surveillance video captured an assault that started in an elevator and ended with the victim being chased away. the attack happened monday inside an apartment building on the 1000 block of diamond street in north philadelphia. police say at least three men and a woman attacked the

victim and took his money. if you have any information about this case, please call police. >> the eagles will try to carve under dallas cowboys on national tv. the birds face the boys in dallas a showdown for first place in the nfc east. eagles players know the game is steeped in tradition. >> it's bigger than me. you know, it's bigger than me, bigger than this team. i think it's -- they've been going at it for so long and now with the stakes being what they are, two teams playing good football, a chance to take over first place in the division, it's a big game for us. >> the cowboys are on a roll. their run game is ranked second in the league. tony romo completed nearly 70 percent of his passes. kickoff at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. >> oh, a win would be sweeter than a piece of pecan pie. >> that is sweet. >> good news for passengers looking to rebook their plane tickets a heads of today's storm. >> plus new research reveals why early childhood education

preschool. david. >> we are arming the kids on the way to school today with an umbrella just in case that rain starts to get pronounced enough for that in time for their walk to the bus stop. this afternoon probably not a bad idea as we have rain or wet snow depending on where you are. it's going to get cooler too. we'll have your day planner forecast and another look at radar coming up next. ♪this holiday season, my good friend gave to me♪

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>> ♪ >> look at the windshield wipers going as mobile6 makes its way into new jersey there. 295 in salem county near penns grove. you can see dealing with some rain but the road itself not too hard to get through right now. >> karen thinks they're going to cow town. >> love cow town. >> yes, it's a 5:20 in the morning they're going to cow town. >> greatest rodeo ever. let's take you to west conshohocken, route 23 front street at fayette street. you can see in this area the roads are a little bit damp. you see the shine on the roads. temperatures above freezing here so it's just a little bit damp as you head out none real

problems right there. the construction we have been talking about in burlington county on route 73 is clear. don't forget with mass transit everything is running on a normal schedule except for the new jersey transit buses, a lot on special holiday schedule and also dave new jersey transit is cross honoring tickets because of the storm. >> all right karen on the big board rain showing up on storm tracker 6 live double scan. a lot of it is light in some cases just drizzle. nuisance rain for now. some heavier cells every now and then starting to pop in in a couple of neighborhoods and this is gradually going to increase in intines is the as we go through the next several hours. eventually we'll start the see this change over to wet snow in the northern and western suburbs first. 41 degrees by 9 o'clock in philadelphia, down to 38 by noon. we'll probably change over to wet snow by about midday or so in philadelphia but it's going to be just wet roads down below on the surface across the region. matt. >> thanks, david. airlines are making adjustments for passengers sake ahead of the wintry mix. abc's reena ninan and t.j.

holmes have america's money. >> airlines getting into the holiday spirit. >> major carriers dropped ticket change fees for passengers flying into and out of the northeast. today's get aways will be made more challenging by the nor'easter that's barreling up the coast. wall street opens apple's market evaluation will be $690 billion. >> for a time yesterday the tech giant was a first u.s. company ever valid at 700 billion. >> else is a from disney's frozen is at the top of the heap when it comes to holiday gifts for girls. >> replaces barbie. the national retail federation is your for 11 years. leg gay toys are top gifts for boys. >> 1 million sweet rolls expected to be sold today through sunday. >> it's about pumpkin by, apple by. >> not cinnamon buns. >> boston cream pie. >> there it is. >> that's america's money. >> that's a lot of icing. >> i love the icing. >> i know.

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now we're getting somewhere. >> ♪ >> good morning everyone. check it out. got some rain here on storm tracker 6 live, little bit later on, some of us are going to see some snow. dave murphy is here tracking it and we'll have an update coming up in a little bit. >> if you want your child best prepared for kindergarten there's a good reason to attend full day preschool starting at the age of three. researchers found children in full day preschool were significantly more like to show stronger gains in language literacy and math skills. full day preschoolers were more likely to have a higher attendance rate. it's a yearly ritual for millions of women but mammograms are far from comfortable for most of them. european engineers though have found a bay to relieve the often painful compression of the breast in order to achieve that x-ray image. they developed a new technique that involves a third less pressure. it's still achieving x-rays that are as accurate. no word on when this technology will be available. >> time right now is 5:26. our coverage of this wintry we'll be right back.

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>> ♪ >> the picture from storm tracker 6 is telling us the rain at least for now story and there's some snow that could move just in time for and there's some snow that >> it is not what you want to see if you're heading out for the holidays. whether are you traveling to the airport, braving the roads or taking a train. we have complete coverage this morning. >> good morning, 5:30 now on this wednesday, november 26th. let's get right on over to meteorologist, david murphy and to karen rogers to give you the latest from accuweather and traffic. good morning. >> well, the rain has arrived across the region but it is very light at this point. most of what you see north of light rain. every now and then we get a light rain. through. this is mainly light nuisance precipitation. the roads aren't that wet in some areas. also we don't have cold air in place yet. we really weren't expecting this so soon so no surprise here. you can see a changeover to snow in the northern and western mountains to our north and west but it's going to be awhile before that cold air can push in and finally get into areas around here. nonetheless we have a winter storm warning and this is in

effect in counties north and west of the immediate i-95 counties. we are looking at northern bucks, northern montgomery, northern and western chester county and up towards the lehigh valley and poconos. in these pink counties this is where the change from rain to wet snow is going to have the biggest impact with at least slushy roads and maybe snow covered roads later today and early tonight. in the advisory area probably just wet roads but poor visibility as that wet snow changeover occurs again ah at some point around midday here. could be earlier this morning in some of those northern and western suburbs but i think we're probably pretty good for the rush hour before we start to see some of that change. so precipitation type today, we are going to see mainly rain in the south. it will be rain eventually changing over to some wet snow with mainly wet roads in the central portion of the region and then mainly snow once we get the changeover after rush hour in those northern and western areas and again that's where we have the biggest impact expected. speaking of which the hardest hit will be the northern and western areas that you see highlighted here. heavy wet snow could pile up on branches and later today or